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The final AJ of the year looks back at the past 12 months and forward to the year ahead. We review 2018’s key architectural events and trends and preview the stories set to dominate the new year. We also pick out the people to watch in 2019 and highlight eight key buildings set to complete. And to make sure you’ve been paying attention, there’s a Christmas quiz on the events that shook the architectural world in 2018 and a chance to play spot the building. PLUS a building study of Karakusevic ..

Iain Sinclair goes Christmas shopping at Westfield

The London shopping centre is a happy slap of enchantment; a spectacular non-space. When you are here, there is no here, writes Iain Sinclair. Photography by Dominik Gigler

A vision of the future, to which we are so terminally mortgaged, has arrived in London’s Shepherd’s Bush in the disguise of a sleek, committee-designed hangar. It looks like a vanity-project swimming pool, intended to demonstrate the readiness of some ambitious provincial city to welcome the Commonwealth Games, circa late 1950s, early ’60s.

Emma Dent Coad won her Kensington seat just days before the Grenfell Tower fire . She speaks to Ella Jessel about the disaster; troll-handling advice from Diane Abbott; and why this is no time for a return to style wars. Photography by Anthony Coleman

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